IP Location Checker

Find where any IP address or website is: country, city, ISP, ASN, VPN flags and blacklists, on a map. Works for IPv4, IPv6, domains and up to 100 IPs at once - a free IP country checker that also explains private addresses. Need the owner of a domain? Try the WHOIS Lookup.

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IPv4, IPv6, domains, full URLs, ip:port, decimal IPs and CIDR ranges all work. Press / to jump here.

How to check the location of an IP address

  1. Enter an IP or a domain. Type or paste an IPv4 or IPv6 address, a domain name, a full URL or a CIDR range - or press Check mine to locate your own connection.
  2. Press Look up. The tool resolves domains, spots private and reserved addresses, and fetches the location, network and security details in a second or two.
  3. Read the result. See the country, region, city, local time, ISP, ASN, reverse DNS, connection type and blacklist status, with the approximate area on a map.
  4. Copy, share or export. Copy any value, save the result as JSON or CSV, or make a share card. For many addresses, switch to Bulk and export the table as CSV.

Checking where a website is hosted? Enter its domain, then look up the owner with the WHOIS Lookup or grab a picture of the page with Website Screenshot.

What the results mean

Every lookup returns the same set of fields.

FieldWhat it tells you
Country, region, cityWhere the network that owns the IP is registered or routed. City is an estimate.
ISP and organisationThe internet provider, and the company the block is assigned to - often the same.
ASNThe autonomous system number - the network that announces this IP on the internet.
Reverse DNSThe host name set for the IP. "Verified" means it points back to the same IP.
Connection typeResidential, mobile, datacenter or VPN/proxy, from database flags and the provider name.
BlacklistsWhether the IPv4 is on a spam or botnet DNS blacklist - useful before sending email.

Why an IP location can look wrong

IP geolocation finds the network, not the person.

A few setups move that network far from the user.

  • VPNs and proxies show the server you connect through, by design.
  • Mobile data often exits through a gateway in another city or region.
  • Carrier-grade NAT shares one public IP between many customers.
  • Company networks send all traffic through head office or a cloud firewall.
  • CDNs answer from the closest data center, so a website seems to live everywhere.

The map pin marks an area, not a building. Treat the city as a good guess and the country as reliable.

Private and reserved IP addresses

Some ranges never appear on the public internet, so they cannot be located.

Look one up and the tool tells you what it is for instead of failing.

RangeUsed for
10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16Private home, office and cloud networks
100.64.0.0/10Carrier-grade NAT inside your provider
127.0.0.0/8, ::1Loopback - the device itself
169.254.0.0/16, fe80::/10Link-local addresses, cloud metadata
fc00::/7IPv6 private (unique local) networks
192.0.2.0/24, 2001:db8::/32Examples in documentation

Want to work out a range? Type it with its prefix, like 192.168.1.0/24, and the CIDR calculator shows the first and last address and the host count.

IPv4 and IPv6

IPv4 addresses are four numbers, like 203.0.113.42 - about 4.3 billion in total, and long since handed out.

IPv6 addresses are eight groups of hex digits, like 2001:db8::1, with room for every device for the foreseeable future.

Many connections have both. The address shown at the top is the one your browser used to reach us. Keep your own accounts safe while you are at it with a strong password from the Password Generator.

Frequently Asked Questions

The country is right for about 95-99% of addresses. The city is right for roughly 50-80%, depending on the country and the provider.

An IP address shows the area of the network that owns it - never a street address or a person.

Mobile carriers, VPNs, corporate networks and carrier-grade NAT route your traffic through a gateway that can be far away - the location shown is that gateway.

Databases also lag for a few weeks when providers move address blocks between regions.

Yes. Enter a domain or paste a full URL and the tool resolves it, then locates the first address. Every address the domain uses is listed, so you can check each one.

Sites behind a CDN show a CDN server, not the origin. For the owner of a domain, use the WHOIS Lookup.

They are private and special addresses. 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x and 172.16-31.x.x are used inside home and office networks, and 127.0.0.1 is your own device.

Millions of networks reuse them, so they have no public location. The tool tells you which range an address belongs to and what it is for.

Yes. Switch to Bulk and paste up to 100 IPs or domains, one per line or separated by commas. Turn on Extract IPs from text to paste a whole log file.

Export the table as CSV or JSON - open it in the CSV Viewer or JSON Viewer.

It shows the VPN, proxy and hosting flags from the location database, recognises common VPN providers by name and checks IPv4 addresses against four DNS blacklists.

No tool catches every VPN, and datacenter IPs that relay traffic - like public DNS servers - are sometimes flagged too.

Yes. Full and shortened IPv6 addresses, [IPv6]:port and IPv6 CIDR ranges all work. IPv4-mapped addresses such as ::ffff:8.8.8.8 are located as the IPv4 inside them.

Blacklist checks are IPv4-only, because most blacklists are.

Results are cached on our server for up to 4 hours so repeat lookups are fast, then deleted. We do not keep a log of who looked up what.

Your Recent lookups list lives only in your own browser - clear it any time.

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